Keywords: Playing Indian
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Site Pages
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes
"The Indian Encampment: Behind the Scenes Indian encampment, Bar Harbor, 1881Abbe Museum All the cooking at the Indian encampment is done…"
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"Conrad Coulombe in costume for play "Tonkourou," Biddeford, ca. 1925McArthur Public Library Talent without an audience quickly evaporates, but…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators
"… Visit the Wabanaki encampment and meet real Indians? Mount Desert Reading RoomJesup Memorial Library The Mt."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Basketball: From Rivals to Teammates
"Although more people were playing the game, it does not necessarily follow that they all played it well."
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder
"… was a performer, producer, and promoter of “Indian entertainments,” and his name appeared in dozens of newspapers across New England, especially…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4
"… Historical Society & Museum The first Indian attack occurred September 1675 in the upper part of Blue Point at the home of Robert Nichols and his…"
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 1 of 4
"And then there was Uphannum, or Indian Jane, daughter of the Sagamore of Owascoag, the Indian's name for Scarborough."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative
"… indicating the area on the Georges River as an Indian village still referred to as Segochet. After Captain Smith reported his discoveries, Prince…"
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"… in the 1970s, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians in 1980, and Mi’kmaq Nation in 1991; the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980; and recent…"
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"He is the author of "Properties of Empire: Indians, Colonists, and Land Speculators on the New England Frontier" (2019). Coll. 60, vol."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans
"… was little to support the theory that any band of Indians had ever been indigenous to Aroostook County, except perhaps after 1790 when white…"
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"… pioneers had seen hard service in the French and Indian and Revolutionary Wars, had been inured to hardship, toil, and poverty, and fully realized…"
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future
"… from David Hutchins were a group of Norridgewock Indians, led by Chief Pierpole. The records show that the few interactions between the two groups…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative
"The conclusion of the French and Indian War in 1763 brought a brief era of peace to the region. Fort Pownall now guarded the entrance to the…"
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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"… paupers, persons under guardianship, and Indians not taxed.” Josiah Farrow represented Islesboro at the convention."